This week’s Docents Gone Wild will be toured by Toronto actor/writer/director Aurora de Peña.

Founding member of the Toronto-based performance collective Birdown and Swanville, Aurora is also the author of 36 Little Plays about Hopeless Girls, which premiered at the Tranzac Club in Toronto in August of 2006, and gained critical praise at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival.Don’t miss Aurora’s Docents Gone Wild debut this Saturday at 1pm!

Meet Aurora at the front desk of the Hotel at 1pm sharp this Saturday Aug 11. Admission is $15 and includes the tour and a mimosa! Get tickets online here or at the front desk.

…Janna Watson and Katrina Tompkins of Tinsel & Sawdust married art and design through a canvas of unsuspecting materials. Tinsel & Sawdust is a multidisciplinary collective of people who are interested in projects that improve quality of life for both maker and user. Focused on locality, good design and integrity, Tinsel & Sawdust is MADE IN TORONTO.

A collision between the Gladstone’s Victorian past and visions of an ultra mod future, the Today Room, 315 exists in the moment.

Created by artist Suanne McGregor, the Today Room melds furnishings and design elements revealed during the hotel’s restoration past with future aesthetics to encourage guests to experience the most important day – today!

This is Ahash and Virgina reporting. At the moment we’re making promotional videos for the event. All the videos are thematically connected: a group of Torontonians kids are just going on with their daily lives and are suddenly kidnapped by a mysterious man. What happens afterwards and whether or not they escape from his clutches forms the rest of the story of our video.

We are not filmmakers or have much skill with in video editing, so the videos are a bit rough. Shooting the promo videos was pretty crazy. We filmed about four promo videos so far, and even though we shot them with flip-cams and the occasional iPhone, they came out really well. Whoever says need a fancy DSLR camera to shoot a good movie is obviously an uncreative liar.

Some spoilers involve a recycling bin, a surprise birthday party, a heart-to-heart, and an artsy fartsy train track scene. We’ve got really terrifying ones and ones that will just make you laugh your ass off. Stay tuned, people.

Part of the SummerWorks Festival, The Torontonians Dare Night Lockdown performance art/sleepover event takes place Aug. 10 7:00pm – Aug. 11 10:00am in the Ballroom. Make sure you pack extra underwear, it’s going to be a scary one!

To help celebrate, Toronto Animal Services is offering a 2-for-1 on cat and kitten adoptions so more cats can benefit from more love this World Cat Day. If you’re not quite ready to double-down on cat duties, you can split the adoption fee with a friend or family member and still spread 2x the cat love.Don’t wait for Ca(t)sual Friday to show all your favourite cats just how special they are to mew, celebrate today!